· Private foundation
Mariam & Robert Hayes Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $543k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLASSROOM CENTRAL INC | $138,000 |
| CABARRUS MEALS ON WHEELS INC | $138,000 |
| CABARRUS ARTS COUNCIL INC | $125,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF THE CALDWELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTE | $117,000 |
| CANNON SCHOOL INC | $100,000 |
| UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INCORPORATED | $100,000 |
| OPEN DOOR HOUSE | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NORTH CAROLINA INC | $90,000 |
| CABARRUS COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC | $85,000 |
| CHRISTIAN RECOVERY CENTERS INC | $80,000 |
| PEACEHAVEN FARM INC | $80,000 |
| COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC | $75,000 |
| CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC | $75,000 |
| MAIN STREET MISSION OF CHINA GROVE INC | $75,000 |
| WALKING IN THE HARVEST | $70,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
84 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $599k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CACabarrus Arts Council7× · 2018–2025 · $650k · revenue +19%
- CMCABARRUS MEALS ON WHEELS INC7× · 2018–2025 · $573k · revenue +66%
- CCCabarrus Cooperative Christian Ministry5× · 2021–2025 · $494k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $279k
- WRWest Rowan Neighborhood Center Advisory Council Incone grant, 2024 · $127k
- IIIDDU INC DBA JULIA'S COMMUNITYone grant, 2023 · $85k · 41% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.
Carolina Human Reinvestment mission is to "Identify and serve the need of the youth and their families in our community "
The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
Operation of a public charter school.
The specific objectives and purposes of this corporation shall be to assist individuals and communities, particularly those in low-income and socially disadvantaged areas, in the creation, expansion, and improvement of rural and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities in Schools of Rowan County and the most unlike its peers is Apseed Early Childhood Education Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
113 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 113 of the 171 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Cabarrus Arts Council ↗
- Who funds CABARRUS MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds Cabarrus Cooperative Christian Ministry ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CENTRAL NC COUNCIL #416 ↗
- Who funds CLASSROOM CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds Midways Opportunity House ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET MISSION OF CHINA GROVE ↗
- Who funds BREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts Hornets Nest Council ↗
- Who funds Community Free Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds CABARRUS VICTIMS ASSISTANCE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Carolinas ↗
- Who funds ROWAN-CABARRUS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF ROWAN ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity Cabarrus County ↗
- Who funds ACADEMIC LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WINGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds Fields of Hope ↗
- Who funds Hope Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds Go Global NC Council Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Walking in the Harvest ↗
- Who funds CABARRUS 4-H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds OLD COURTHOUSE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMS YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TRYON PALACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MYFUTURENCINC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Charles a Cannon Trust No 1 · Wcnc Cannon Charitable Trust · Speedway Children's Charities · North Carolina Community Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Mariam & Robert Hayes Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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